watershed restoration: scope and scale
TRANSCRIPT
Watershed Restoration: Scope and Scale
What are your goals? How do you achieve them?
What is possible in a suburban watershed?
Pristine?
Rain garden / infiltration basin
Buffer area
http://phillywatersheds.org/biggreenmap
• Individual BMP performance? • Stream water quality improvement? • Stormwater quantity reductions? • Stormwater quality improvements?
How do you measure and track?
What are your goals?
• Reduce: • Sediment • Pathogens • Nitrogen and phosphorous pollution • Flooding & excessive runoff
• Delist impaired status – Clean Water Act • Wild trout
What are your goals?
What are your goals?
How do you achieve them?
What will we do or change?
What will we do or change?
Improve Pasture Management Stabilize Roadway
Improved Crop Field Management
Plant Forest Buffer Exclude Livestock From Stream
Stop Barnyard Runoff Manure Storage
What will we impact?: • Bacteria • Sediment • Water temperature • Infiltration/hydrology • Soil carbon? • Macroinvertebrates • Fish • Algae
Typical farm project How much change is enough?
Our Mission
How many farms is enough?
Lancaster Mill Creek Section 1
Dave B. Arscott filling in for…:
Matthew J. Ehrhart
Director of Watershed Restoration
Stroud Water Research Center
610 268 2153 ext 308